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5 over 4 at Cambridge Galleries
Attempting to trace the inner structures, directions, and relationships between works in 5 over 4, an exhibition of sound-based work currently at Cambridge Galleries in Queen's Square, generates a...
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Saskia Jetten at the Burnaby Art Gallery
An award winning contemporary Dutch printmaker now living in the Fraser Valley, Saskia Jetten continues to be internationally recognized her for innovative prints. Bringing along her lithographic...
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Ron Shuebrook at the MSVU Art Gallery
Rooted in a modernist practice of formal abstraction, Ron Shuebrook's drawings, now on view at the MSVU Art Gallery, exude determination. Their heavily worked surfaces bear the history of a back and...
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Matthew Barney at Luminato | Jon Rafman at galerie antoine ertaskiran
The most shocking thing about last Friday's screening (and the Canadian premiere) of Matthew Barney's scatological six-hour, continent-spanning opera epic about mortality, rebirth, Egyptian mythology,...
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Dora Garcia at The Darling Foundry
One of the headiest exhibitions around town this summer, Dora Garcia's Of Crimes and Dreams, is a fascinating, engrossing and rewarding experience... but be prepared to give it some of your time....
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Weavers Unlimited at the Colbourne Art Gallery
I've said this before, but it bears repeating: I'm a total sucker for textiles. Absolutely love the stuff, and it's easy to miss the fact that textiles literally changed the world, as anthropologist...
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Rehab Nazzal at the Karsh-Masson Gallery in Ottawa
When asked by Diana Nemiroff to explain the title of her exhibition Invisible at the Karsh-Masson Gallery, the artist Rehab Nazzal responded that it is about the invisibility of the struggle of the...
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Kevin Sonmor at Katzman Contemporary | David Merritt at Jessica Bradley
There are times when the critical faculties and the vagaries of taste hew different paths. Such a thing happened when I first entered Katzman Contemporary's current exhibition of Kevin Sonmor's...
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Visual Art at Sled Island
June in Calgary brings skies of pollinating poplar fuzz and the Sled Island Music & Arts Festival, with its own type of pollination and cross-pollination. Ages, social cliques, hangouts, and genres...
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Svava Thordis Juliusson & Laura Marotta at the McMaster Museum of Art
Uniting Hamilton-based artists Svava Thordis Juliusson and Laura Marotta for a summer exhibition at the McMaster Museum of Art reveals something more than the intuitive materiality common to their...
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Angela Grauerholz at Olga Korper | Eldon Garnet at Christopher Cutts
Montreal-based photographer Angela Grauerholz is a classic modernist in that you're always aware you're looking at a picture when you're looking at her pictures. Her characteristically blurry focus...
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Peter Culley at the Charles H. Scott Gallery
The genre of the peripatetic poet has long been established as a romantic and idealized way of seeing the world. From Aristotle to Hamish Fulton, the act of walking has become intricately bound to the...
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Art Spin 2014 | Jennifer Rose Sciarrino at Daniel Faria
Wandering amongst the mostly young, mostly new to me folks at the opening to last weekend's annual Art Spin exhibition, I eventually ran into an old acquaintance from the times when we were young and...
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Claire Greenshaw at the Khyber Centre for the Arts
The Khyber Centre for the Arts' first exhibition in their new (although temporary) gallery space on Cornwallis St in the North End, Claire Greenshaw's The World Has a You Shaped Hole in It, is a...
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Keeping Time at Trepanier Baer
In his introduction to the opening of the exhibition Keeping Time: Ledger Drawings and the Pictographic Traditions of Native North Americans, Yves Trepanier of Trépanier Baer Gallery claimed that the...
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Rebecca Belmore at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery | Toronto Outdoor Art...
One of the more pleasant bits of news to come down the pipe this past spring was that Barbara Fischer would be taking over the directorship of the University of Toronto Art Centre while also retaining...
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Beyond the Edge at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa
There are so many great exhibitions in Ottawa right now it is difficult to choose which one to write about, but since summer is here and the weather’s lovely, I’m going to exhort you to get outside and...
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Jennifer Dorner at Station Gallery in Whitby
The night sky has long been the cultural, social, religious, and scientific repository of our earth-bound yearnings. But it’s always such serious stuff: origins myths, cosmologies, cultural beliefs and...
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Lee Henderson at gallerywest | Susy Oliveira & Lauren Hall at Erin Stump...
Bob Dylan sang “Death is not the end” on Down in the Groove, one of his least popular LPs, but Evan Tyler wasn’t listening. The soon-to-be-former proprietor of the four-year-old gallerywest–which was...
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Maggie Groat & Barbara Hobot at Elora Centre for the Arts
Untitled (the possibilities of voids and the sentience of things) at Elora Centre for the Arts features the work of Maggie Groat and Barbara Hobot, a pairing which curator Tarin Hughes attributes to a...
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